Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding — ADGLNSR Wordo: KARST

  • cuckoo in the night

    do you smell the lilacs 
    as clearly as I do
    does the moss embrace your bare feet
    and do the apple blossoms 
    float around you
    in the gentle wind
    do you see the clouds 
    resembling mountains 
    is your sky darkening in the same way
    do the raindrops hitting your face
    shock you awake
    like they do me
    do you hear the common cuckoo
    calling in the night
    and do you answer?
    

  • The Rainy Season

    We have entered the Rainy Season here, and I saw that Typhoon #1 has already formed. Unfortunately spring is now gone and summer is on the way. It took quite a while for the weather to cool off last year, and so I'm not looking forward to having to run the A/C all day each day from now on.

    I have been reading eBooks again recently, and it's been a while. I returned to them after having picked one up a few weeks ago; I was digging around in one of the Palm Desktop CDs (I think it was for the Palm T|X) and I found a summer sampler from the mid 2000s. When I finished it I was looking for more to read, so I went off to Project Gutenberg, where there are thousands of books.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Back to generating FODT

    For us, users of Open Source software, there are always some challenges to collaborate with the rest of the world, jailed by propriety solutions created by Microsoft or Apple.

    For years, I could send simple ODT-files to the publisher. I wrote my articles in org-mode, and when ready, I used the Emacs org-mode export functionality to create an ODT-file from my org-mode text.

    Now, the publisher requires a specific ODT-template (well, actually, it is a MS Word docx template). It looks like a handmade template, presumably geared towards easy conversion for their publishing software. This templates has many different elements, and for each element a different style.

    I tried to adapt the org-mode export functionality to export into this new format, but the many different elements and the use of their own names of the styles is a big hurdle. In the end, I decided to abandon this route and looked at writing an exporter myself.